The Dental Specialists
5215 Old Orchard Rd, Suite 200, Skokie, IL 60077
The registry record
- NPI
- 1548640485
- Registered as
- Type-2 organization (not an individual dentist's personal NPI)
- Dental categories
- Oral surgery, Periodontics
- Taxonomy codes
- 1223P0300X (Periodontics); 1223S0112X (Oral and maxillofacial surgery)
- Practice location
- 5215 Old Orchard Rd, Suite 200, Skokie, IL 60077
- Telephone
- (847) 663-0400
- NPI issued
- 5 June 2015 (11 years ago)
- Record updated
- 5 June 2015 (11 years ago)
- NPI status
- NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-08
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN (metropolitan area, Cook County)
- State
- Illinois (5,631 registered practices)
- Operator size
- 21 addresses registered under this organization name nationally
- Sibling NPIs
- Rajan Sharma DDS MSD PC (1184004020); University Dental Associates (1720497266)
- Map position
- Census address match at street level
- Snapshot
- NPPES data dissemination file, 10 August 2026
What the record tells you
The Dental Specialists is an NPI registry record for a dental organization at 5215 Old Orchard Rd, Suite 200 in Skokie, Illinois 60077. CMS issued NPI 1548640485 on 5 June 2015, and the practice last updated its own entry on 5 June 2015. That was 11 years ago, so treat the phone number and the suite number as unconfirmed until someone answers.
It is registered under 2 dental taxonomy codes: Periodontics (1223P0300X), Oral and maxillofacial surgery (1223S0112X). That puts it in 2 categories on this site, led by oral and maxillofacial surgery. A practice that registers more than one category is telling CMS it does more than one kind of dental work at this address, which is why it has a page here rather than a row. The same registered name appears at 21 distinct addresses nationally. That is either a group practice or a name common enough that unrelated offices share it, so ask whether pricing is set locally or by a parent company. 2 further NPIs are registered to what looks like the same business at this address (Rajan Sharma DDS MSD PC, NPI 1184004020 and University Dental Associates, NPI 1720497266); they are covered by this page rather than given pages of their own.
Skokie holds 63 registered dental practices inside the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, which has 4,610 in total on the Illinois side and ranks 1st in the state. 5 of the Skokie records also register oral and maxillofacial surgery, so this is one of several local options in that category. Across the metro the mix runs general dentistry 69.1%, dental clinic or center 19.2%, orthodontics 6.2%. The closest other registered practices are David B. Schwartz DDS LTD (0.3 miles, Skokie), Urban Dental, LTD. (0.3 miles, Skokie) and David B. Schwartz, DDS and Associates (0.3 miles, Skokie), with 2 more inside 0.3 miles.
On our figures a routine adult cleaning in Illinois runs $110 to $165 cash and scaling and root planing $180 to $285 per quadrant, against a US average of $125. This practice's own prices are not in the registry and never will be: NPPES holds identifiers, not fees. Call (847) 663-0400 and ask for the cash price on code D1110, whether the exam and X-rays are included, and whether they run a membership plan if you have no insurance.
Nearest alternatives
The 5 closest registered dental practices to 5215 Old Orchard Rd, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are listed on their metro page rather than having one of their own.
| Practice | City | Distance | Categories | Phone on the record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David B. Schwartz DDS LTD | Skokie, IL | 0.3 mi | General | (847) 677-2808 |
| Urban Dental, LTD. | Skokie, IL | 0.3 mi | Dental clinic | (847) 677-7820 |
| David B. Schwartz, DDS and Associates | Skokie, IL | 0.3 mi | General | (847) 677-2808 |
| Kunnel Dental Center P.C. | Skokie, IL | 0.3 mi | Public health, Orthodontics | (847) 675-7090 |
| Wendy Shorr DDS | Skokie, IL | 0.3 mi | General | (847) 673-8883 |
The benchmark to hold a quote from The Dental Specialists against. Illinois cost guide.
What to ask when you call
- The cash price for D1110, a routine adult cleaning, and whether the exam (D0120) and X-rays (D0274) are inside or outside that number.
- Whether you need scaling and root planing before a routine clean, and the per-quadrant price for D4341 or D4342 if so.
- Whether they run an in-house membership plan, and what it covers against what it costs a year.
- Whether they are taking new patients and how far out the next hygiene appointment is.
- The practice license, with your state dental board. An NPI is a billing identifier and proves nothing about licensing.
CMS NPPES NPI data file, August 2026, snapshot 10 August 2026. US federal public data (FOIA-disclosable, no charge). CMS NPI files. NPI registry records, status as reported by CMS in the August 2026 data dissemination file. NPPES is an identifier registry, not a license register: an NPI does not validate that a practice is licensed, accredited or currently open. Practices maintain their own NPPES entries. Every page shows the date the record was last updated; addresses and phone numbers are as self-reported and are not verified by us. This page describes a registry record. It is not a review, an endorsement or a check on The Dental Specialists.
Price figures are our own, last verified April 2026. State averages are our estimates compiled from FAIR Health regional cost data and CMS Medicare fee schedules; the ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, so no national fee survey exists. Treat them as a starting point and call two or three offices for an actual quote.